Car-door.



Patented Apr. A2.2, 1913.

' GAR DOOR.

APPLIUATION FILED JULY 19, 1912.

P. T. PARIS & D. A. NEWHALL.

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CAR-DOOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 22, 1913.

To all whom/@'15 may concern:

Be it known that we, PHILIP T. FARIS and DANIEL A. NEWIIALL, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Berwind, in the county ot McDowell andState of West Virginia, have invented new and useful Improvements inCar-Doors, of which the following is a speelication.

This invention relates to improvements In car doors and especially inmeans for mounting a car door on one side of a car to permit the door tobe moved to open or closed pos1- tion and prevent the door from becomingdetached from the car and being lost, one object of the invention beingto eii'ect 1mprovements in theI construction of the door hangers and inthe construction of the crank rod which operates in connection with thehangers to support the door and to move the same toward and from the carwall.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of devices,hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing z-Figure 1' is a side elevation of a portionof a car wall provided with a door constructed in accordance with ourinvention, the door being shown in closed position in full lines andindicated in open position ,in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a det-ailvertical sectional view on the plane indicated by the line a-a of Fig.1, showing the door in place in the door opening in full lines and movedoutwardly ,at one end from the door opening in dotted lines.

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view on the plane indicated by the line 3 3of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view on the plane indicatedby the line 1 4 of Fig. 1.

For the purposes of this-specification, a portion of the wall of a caris indicated at 1, the door opening being indicated at 2. Track rails3-4 are arranged on the car wall, one above and the other below the dooropening. The ends of the track rails which are nearest the door openingare secured directely to the wall and the track rails then extendoutwardly at an angle to the wall until they get beyond the dooropening, their remaining portions,4 which are at the opposite side ofthe door opening being parallel with the wall. The upper track rail 3 isconnected to the wall of the car and held in place bv means of brackets5, which also serve to space the said track rail from the car wall. Thelower track rail is held in place by spaced brackets 6.

The door 7 is provided at one side at its upper and lower ends withhangers 8 which engage and operate onthe upper and lower rails. Near theopposite side of the door at its upper and lower ends are bearings 9 inwhich a rod 10 is mounted, the said rod being provided at its upper endwith a crank adapted to slide back and forth in the lower,

track rail.

A hanger 17 is mounted on the upper track rail for longitudinal movementthereon and is provided on its inner side at its lower end with an arm18 which has a bearing for the upper crank pin 13. The said hanger alsohas a T-slot 19 extending therethrough and which communicates with thesaid bearing to enable the carrier to be detached from the upper crankpin. The head of the upper crank pin extends above the lower edge of theupper track rail and the said track rail also covers the head ortransverse portion of the Tslot so that the lower portion of the trackrail is between the inner side of the upper hanger and the head of theupper crank pin and, hence, the latter is kept in engagement with thebearing. Before the crank pin can be removed from the bearing 4of thehanger 17, the latter must be removed trom one end ofthe upper trackrail as will be understood. The rod 10 has an arm 20 projecting radiallytherefrom and provided with a pivoted member .21 which is provided nearits free end with a slot 22 adapted to engage a staple 23 which projectsfrom the door. The said member 21 also has a pivoted hook 21 to engagethe staple and lock the member 21 thereto when the rod 10 is turned soas to cause its cranks to move the door laterally and inwardly. from thetrack rails and into the door opening. By turning the said crank rod inthe -reverse direction its cranks in coaction with the hanger 17 andcarrier 16 will move one end of the door outwardly from the door openingand the door can then be moved to one side of the door opening so as toentirely uncover the latter, the car wall being provida with stops 25 tolimit the outward opening movement of the oor.

While We have herein shown and described a preferred form of ourinvention, We would have it understood that changes may be made in theform, proportion and construction of the several parts, Withoutdeparting from the spirit of the invention and Within the scope of theappended claims.

1. In combination with a track rail, a hanger having an arm extending toone side of the track rail and provided with a bearing, the said hangeralso having a slot communicating with the bearing and extending to theopposite side of the track rail, a door,

and a rod mounted in bearings on the door and having a crank providedWith a crank pin mounted in the bearing and engaging the inner side ofthe track rail.

2. In combination With a track rail, a

, hanger movable longitudinally on and removable from the track rail atone end of the latter, said hanger having a bearing at a point on theinner side of the track rail and also having a slot extending from thebearing to the outer side of the hanger, and a door-operating rod havinga crank provided With a crank pin mounted in the bearing and maintainedin place thereon by the track rail under the hanger on the track rail.

In testimony vvhereoi:I We aiiiX our signatures in presence of twoWitnesses.

PHILIP T. FARIS. DANIEL A. NEWHALL.

IVitnesses:

EUGENE S. THOMPSON, I-I. R. SHAW.

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